Improvement in beer-faucets



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Beer-Faucets.-

Patnted Aug.11,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOHAN N G. ADAM, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEER-FAUCETS.

Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 153,919, dated August 11, 1374; application filed March 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHANN GEORG ADAM, of Newport, Campbell county, Kentucky, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Beer Faucets, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a system of levers, by which the faucet is opened and closed, and

by which the valve is sustained in the open and closed positions.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a section, of my improved faucet in the closed position. Fig. 3 is a modification of the same in the open position.-

The stem or stock is composed of wooden plug A and metallic socket B. G is the dischargeaperture, whose lower face forms a seat, against which the valve D operates, closin g against the pressure. The pipe E, for the discharge of beer in the proper direction, may

The valve is opened or closed by pressure upon the handle I; and it will be seen that, by the combination of lever G and socket-lever H, the valve, when open, is so retained by the weight of the levers, and that, when closed, is forcibly held closed by the weight of lever H and the locking of the levers H G together.

J is the vent-valve. It may be simply a rubber strip, J ,at the bottom of a perforated plug, K, communicating with the passage L,

leading into the interior of the keg; or it may be a valve, J, (as I prefer,) seating in top of the perforated pipe M, communicating with the passage L, the valve J, in the latter case, being connected to a flexible rod N, which, when the valve D is opened, acts to raise the valveJ by the compression of the flexible rod N.

I claim- In combination with the valve D of the faucet, the yoke F and levers G H, operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

JOHANN GEORG ADAM. Witnesses:

J. L. WARTMANN, FRANK MILLWARD. 

